There will always be something that is the most difficult to fake. Language, or rather slang. Perhaps the most accurate mirror in the world, reflecting the specifics of any time. Language lives with us and changes no less often than, for example, fashion, with words coming in and out of vogue. Andthis viral threadin the AskReddit community is dedicated to examples of such slang words considered ‘outdated’.
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I was unaware sweet was out of date.I said sweet to a customer and the tweens thought it was hilarious. Dad said dude. I said sweet. Dad said dude… back and forth until we laughed. Made my day but the tweens looked so confused.#youhadtobethere
I was at a grocery store a while back and the person working the register was a young 20’s woman. She said something and I responded with “Right on” and she responds with “Oh, I love old timey sayings!”So I guess that’s my old timey saying that I still use.
Dude. I say it all the time…so much so that when my son was 3, he called me either “mommy” or “dude”.I ctfu once at the grocery store when we were checking out once and my son said, “Dude, can I have candy?“Cashier looked at me and said, “Did he call you Dude?“Yup.
Yes, it is slang that most accurately reflects the dynamics of the development ofany language- because the academic norms of linguistics clearly don’t keep up with the rapid fashion for words. Especially with the development of the internet. It is not surprising that it was in 1990, a year before the emergence of the worldwide web, that the American Dialect Society began to determine ‘The Word of the Year’ in the United States.
Cool beans.
I finish every sentence with Man, and I call everyone Dude. 🤷
I’ve been known to use the word “copacetic” on occasion.
By the way, the history of words and expressions that became ‘The Word of the Year’ over the time perfectly illustrates the evolution of our lives. For example, in 1994 it was the wordcyber, in 2003 -metrosexual, in 2009 -tweet, in 2020 -Covid, and in 2023 -ens**ttification(the pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that function as two-sided markets). At the same time, some ‘words of the year’ are so irrevocably a thing of the past that it’s difficult to remember their meaning without the appropriate context.
“thingy” “thingamajig”
Okey-Dokey
“On the other hand, we stop accepting new words in the language where we feel comfortable, and ifsomeone considers, for example, the words ‘cool’ and ‘okey-dokey’ to be outdated, then this is not at all a problem for people who actively use them in their speech. In any case, each generation, each year brings us more and more new words - only for them to, after some time, also ‘go out of fashion.’ This is an objective process - and that’s what makes linguistics so wonderful,” Oleksiy ponders.
I’m the only person I know who responds to something with “Nice!”
heavens to murgatroyd!
DopeEdit: especially feels weird now that I’m almost 40 and use it to describe mundane things like salad dressing.
I still use “cool” and refer to my close friends as “dude”
Now we’re cooking with gasGood griefI refer to people as cool cats and good eggs
Wicked.
I tell people ‘peace out’ and acknowledge things with ‘word’. I’m 43
NiftyLegit had someone ask where I was from one time.
Awesome sauce. I’m 49. I nearly fell over when my 17yo employee said it. She got it from her parents.
Groovy
I still use jank/janky/janked a lot, which I feel is a bit outdated. And the occasional ‘bite me’.
Grody instead of gross
Bee’s knees.
10-4
Mondo, tubular, groovy, totally colabrafo, radical. I’m basically a Ninja Turtle.
Are the kids still saying yeet these days?
Oh snap
I’m big on gnarly and solid. I was not around during the timeframe they would’ve been popular. I have no idea why I say them
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sick. boss. rad. dude. bro. bruh. half of these i started saying ironically because i hated them, but it turns out i was the douche all along and now they won’t leave my vocabulary lmao what a twist for the many people talking about how un-outdated some of my list is: can you not already see i am a dumba**?allow me to live, brü. i am a 34yo woman/alien and idk what the hell is ever going on lmao EDIT: PLEASE LEARN TO READ LOL i have already said some of these are apparently not outdated!! i wish your reading comprehension was the same BRÜ
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Lately Ive been saying sheesh again and I dont know why
I say “brb” out loud a lot
Stoked!
Rad
Man alive
Totes McGotes
Saying good things are “Sweet”.
Coolio when I mean cool. Although I’m not sure that was ever mainstream or just Sarah Chalke on scrubs.
suh dude will never leave my vocab
Gimme five bees for a quarter
“Fetch”
I still refer to people as “Dog.” It started ironically at work, and somehow found its way into my every day speech. I don’t even realize I’m doing it anymore.
Wazzzzzup with my tongue out
Word to your mother
When telling a story I call other guys “that cat”
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